oh no!!!!

[thevet]

Just goes to show black GTRs are not necessarily God's chosen colour, so beware Wayne.



Still, I've found out that the factory do insurance repairs, thank god.....or maybe not.

[GTRene]

ai...maybe thats Gods way of "say it, with a flower" and from that high it looks maybe like a small flower but it was a big tree
sorry to see that..that must hurt...
GTRene

[gtrclive]

Sorry to see buddy. But at least you can now paint it yellow with the insurance money.....

[steve_d]

Man that's not good.

How much damage is there once the branches are removed or is the whole tree trunk in there?

Steve

[thevet]

It's probably not as bad as it looks, but I think all the body panels are beyond redemption, the front screen is shattered, but I don't see any branches that have penetrated to the chassis, so I' hoping it is "just" a new body, but as I said, the factory is the only real repair centre. You should have heard the voice at the other end of the phone at the garage suggested local repair centre as I tried to describe what sort of car it was, strangely they said it might be better to get back in contact with the insurers!

[thevet]

And Clive, by the way, just cos god doesn't like black doesn't mean it ain't best. yellow? yuk!

[GTWayne]

My commiserations Tim, that is just not fair. You seem to be handling it quite well. Look at it this way, if the car had not been the correct colour from the word go, it may well have sustained more damage and been a complete write off! Maybe God has been a little more lenient because the car was the right hue. Seriously though mate, I feel gutted for you

[crafty]

Yeah... that sucks big time. My garage is on the waterfront, we've just come out of typhoon season and I was shit scared the water would rise too far. It hasnt flooded there for many years, but she was up on stands on the worst days, just in case.

Maybe God was jealous 'cos He's not allowed to drive a black one?

[csee]

Hi sorry to see the pictures, you mention insurance can you or anybody name some companies (uk)who do cover for a build of an ultima to the finished grin, I have tried some but only insure the finished car.

[gtr-gaz]

That looks awful Tim

I had a lucky escape a couple of years ago. A tree in our garden came down and landed on the house roof and not the garage.

Hope it gets sorted ok.

[crazy of cookham]

Sorry mate. Its a shame insurance co wil not just give a decent payout and allow you to fit a new body yourself. I am sure your hourly rate would be less than garage. Chance to build again.

[ultimad]

Can someone copy these photos into the topic ? Darn thing's blocked here at work. Telling me it's obscene material . . . is that coz it's black ?

[thevet]

I think it's because I used a rude word in the first line which has now kindly been edited!!

[steve_d]

thevet said:

I think it's because I used a rude word in the first line which has now kindly been edited!!

No the firewall where I work also blocked the host site of the photos even after the title change.
I have no problems with imageshack pics when at work.

Steve

[thevet]

crazy of cookham said:

Sorry mate. Its a shame insurance co wil not just give a decent payout and allow you to fit a new body yourself. I am sure your hourly rate would be less than garage. Chance to build again.

The insurance might make an offer once they get the estimate from the factory, but I'd rather have my car back, repaired by the factory, as I haven't got the time available at the moment to do much rebuilding, and if it hasn't escaped being noticed, nor do I have a garage to work in, as that is almost certain to have to be partially demolshed due to big cracks in the brickwork. Still hope to be able to put a new engine in with a bit more power, so what a great chance to take the engine out and try to sell it! Anybody want a supercharged 406 with only 2k on the clock, runs perfectly, never been over 5750rpm?

[RichardD]

I'd have gone back inside again after seeing that and hoped I would shortly wake up and everything would be OK again !!

[donkeasy]

crafty said:

Yeah... that sucks big time. My garage is on the waterfront, we've just come out of typhoon season and I was shit scared the water would rise too far. It hasnt flooded there for many years, but she was up on stands on the worst days, just in case.

Maybe God was jealous 'cos He's not allowed to drive a black one?

I think the guy is keen on white

virgin angels as I remember it right

[scuff]

You know what they say about white (it still has no s in it)
S

[Pilot Pete]

Man talk about back luck, sorry fella.

[thevet]

Got the car down to the factory yesterday after 300 miles of pouring rain and setting of at 5am. Good to see so many shiny "perfect" examples of our breed of car, and to think that I will hopefully get mine back in that state in 3-4 months time. Then it's time for the new engine, not because of the tree incident just because it has to be done. Thought about an LS7 but I think they're just too expensive and untried yet. Have to say that if I had the money Boosted's LS7 package would be very high on my list. But I'll just have to settle on a little destroked 427 with a bigger blower. I'll eventually post some pics when it finally appears as I've learned how to show pics now. So assuming Mr Insurance is cooperative then I will have to agree that every storm cloud has a silver [or black in this case] lining.